10 Ways To Make Users Click
You can’t force anyone to click, or do anything they don’t want to do on the internet. So how do you encourage visitors to your website to do what you want them to? The answer is to use websites to engage in conversations with their users, just as a business would with a potential customer.. read more →
WordPress 3.5 unveils new default theme
The latest iteration of the web publishing platform WordPress now includes the fully responsive Twenty Twelve theme. The almost omnipotent CMS has reached its latest iteration, 3.5, with a number of new and exciting improvements. Iterative updates often only include minor tweaks and enhancements, and while 3.5 has its fair share of these, it also.. read more →
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
The Paperwhite is a Kindle Touch with a light. A button at the bottom unlocks the screen, but everything else is touch-based. The light is turned on by default and four LEDs at the top of the screen emit a soft, white glow that makes it easy to read books in complete darkness, without straining.. read more →
Download Google Earth 7
You can now download the Desktop version of Google Earth 7, which was previously only available on mobile devices. It contains all the breathtaking 3D imagery that phone and tablet users have enjoyed for the last few months. Major US cities including Boston, San Diego and Los Angeles appear, as do European cities including Munich.. read more →
Microsoft’s ‘browser ballot’ error costs Fire fox
What happened? Mozilla, the not-for-profit organisation behind Firefox claimed the “browser ballot” missing from Windows cost it nine million users. In 2009, the EU ordered Microsoft to promote rival browsers to counteract the advantage Internet Explorer has by being installed by default with the Windows operating system. However, when Service Pack 1 was released for.. read more →
5 tips for quick Photoshop fixes
Rescue bad shots with these super-fast photo edit Sometimes things don’t go to plan when you take your shots. All is not lost however, as Photoshop gives you some amazing edits that will allow you to save potentially ruined photos. This doesn’t take hours to do and it doesn’t need years of editing experience either… read more →
5 tips for using Shutter Speeds
Technical Tip : Use Shutter Priority ( usually a S or TV sysmbol ) to change the shutter speed and let the camera set the aperture. Your shutter speed helps you to control the amount of light that gets through to your sensor. A fast shutter speed such as 1/1000sec won’t allow much light through.. read more →
5 tips for shooting superb rainbows
Rainbows often appear completely out of the blue, and when they arrive, they have an unstoppable ability to make us stand and stare. Getting this moment in a photo however, is not always easy, but with our tips you will soon be able to create an image that has the exact same effect on those.. read more →
Top tips for using Safari tools in Chrome
View and select tabs If your favorite browser doesn’t have a particular feature that you’ve seen in another browser, you don’t have to miss out. You can just use a plug-in to add it. Here, we’ve looked at how to recreate some of the unique features of Apple’s Safai browser in Chrome. To get Safari Tab View feature, which.. read more →
Acer Iconia A110
For the past two years, Apple has shunned the 7″ tablet form factor in favour of its 4″ iPod/iPhone and 10″ iPad and that has left a chasm in the market that has sucked in an array of Android models. In particular, we’ve seen something of an arms race between Acer and Samsung that has.. read more →